Where are the leaders who have a certain tyranny in their minds which translates into authoritarianism but when they have served their agreed time go and live quiet lives, out of the limelight, and let others do the work? Where are the thinkers whom we all look up to and admire for the clarity of their thoughts? Are we so bereft of intellect that poorly spoken, intellectually challenged singers and entertainers are the whole of all we can quote, all we can follow, all we can talk about?
And yet did they not mourn the Circus Maximus in Rome who could think about the polity? Did Pericles to show Athenian power, build homes for the disabled or a church? Do kings and queens not laud themselves in pomp as a spectacle?
Human beings experience each other and nature. That is what we do and what defines us in our four dimensional existence. And that experience is a series of actions that builds up in our lives and what rules us, are our ethics. Wherever we are, whoever we are, we all have ethical considerations and yes, they are all different for all that religions try to make then uniform.
But you cannot impose the idea of self upon an individual. All you can do is assuage the selfishness within them and it is that which gives us strength.
The selfless person is the strongest human being known. They are the people who give up power when it is right to do so and take up power only if it is right for them to do so and not because they can. They are the people who build for the weak and ridicule the selfish in their every action. They are the true kings and queens of us all.